[Yahoshua]

I'll phrase it this way:

There is nothing wrong with the concept of a death penalty. Pedophiles and Serial-killers cannot be fixed or reconditioned to a point that would allow them to live peacably in society, and their actions are inexcusable.

What I do have a problem with, is our justice system as a whole. About 2 years ago I was talking with a woman who had attended Harvard Law School, but became so disillusioned that she dropped out of that career path. She told me that on her first day of class, her professor told the students to open their burgundy hard-cover books to one of the prologue pages and read a paragraph about 2/3 of the way down the page. While I quote her words as accurately as I can remember: "The American legal system is not about the search for truth or justice, but about who can afford the best actor for their case."

My family has been a victim of this very same thinking, and in recognition of the impunity which District Attorneys and Judges operate (they can't be sued here in the U.S.), I am utterly opposed to how the system has operated and continues to operate. In where lawyers on each side, regardless of whether the defendant is truly guilty or truly innocent, finagle, manipulate, and utterly corrupt the purposes and principles of law. As such, I place no confidence in the American justice system whatsoever.